Tag Archives: Reformation

Reformation Sunday

In the old Roman Rite calendar, today would have been the Feast of Christ the King. This solemnity was deliberately placed on the last Sunday of October to coincide with Reformation Sunday. For reasons lost on me, the liturgical calendar was changed in 1970, and Christ […]

All Saints Day

Jollyblogger has initiated the Carnival of the Reformation. The motto of the carnival is "Post Tenebras Lux". That's Latin for "After the Darkness, Light". I find it appropriate that it was posted today, All Saints Day. Yesterday was Reformation Sunday. Today, on the feast honoring the saints of the […]

There He Stood

Dr. Phillip Blosser, the Pertinacious Papist, wrote an interesting article on Martin Luther's Bible. It dispels some common Protestant myths. "A common assumption among Lutherans and other Protestants is that Luther…was the Reformer, more than any other, who is to be credited with making the Bible available in the common language…What is not […]